Friends are mourning the sudden passing on Nov. 16 of David Cavezza, a 30-year resident of Miami Lakes.
Cavezza, 72, was born in Mount Pleasant, Pa. and attended Wayne State University. He was a contractor with the U.S. Department of Defense, selling insurance policies to military personnel. He traveled to 32 countries for work and lived in six of them, his fiancée Bernadette Hutnick said.
He later worked for insurance firms in the U.S. before retiring to Florida, eventually moving to Miami Lakes, she said.
The couple met 17 years ago at Vie de France Bakery & Café on Main Street.
His loves also included his rescued dogs and cats, and dancing, she said.
“He loved to go disco dancing at a club in Dania Beach, until COVID,” she said. “He’d play his ‘80s songs and Motown music, which he loved because he grew up in Detroit.”
Cavezza’s survivors in Michigan include nieces Stacey Basilisco and Kristi Theol, and sister-in-law, Patricia Cavezza who was married to his late brother Frank Cavezza, Hutnick said.
Pastor Rev. Jaime Acevedo of St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church in Southwest Ranches said of Cavezza, who recently became a Catholic, “To me, he was a saint. I am sure he is in heaven. He cared for everyone, even people he met in the street.”
Cavezza spent his retirement distributing food, bibles and clothing to homeless people, Hutnick said.
“He will be missed by me and so many,” she said.